Henry Darger, “At McCalls Run Coller Junction Vivian girl saves strangling children from phenomenon of frightful shape” (1910–1970), crayon, encre, aquarelle ...
Detail from Henry Darger’s “The Story of the Vivian Girls” (photo by cometstarmoon/Flickr) An independent theater in Chicago is adapting Henry Darger’s life into a play. The effort, currently ...
Recluse janitor Henry Darger spent more than 40 years in a tiny one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, writing, painting, sketching, collecting and fantasizing. It wasn’t until after his death in 1973 ...
Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the confines of his ...
Henry Darger, a recluse who left behind thousands of wild illustrations upon his death, is the subject of fascination in this one-man show. By Elisabeth Vincentelli This month offers St. Patrick’s Day ...
Like any work of nonfiction, a biography relies on an interactive trust between author and audience. The audience grants it because the author earns it. And so it is not heartening to learn, early on ...
The breathtaking, disturbing, monumental artwork and writings of Henry Darger (1892-1973), a previously unknown and reclusive Chicago hospital janitor, were found shortly after he moved out of his ...
Artist Henry Darger lived in a rented room in a row home in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago for some 40 years, from 1932 to 1972. While there, unknown to his contemporaries, he created an ...
Writing as an artist, looking at the exhibition Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum makes one question the rules of composition, perspective, proportion, color ...
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